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Just so you know, the bridge you take when you ride across the Sweetwater River on the San Diego Bay Bikeway? That’s the Gordy Shields Bridge.

I didn’t know that but you can bet the next time I bicycle across that bridge, I’m going to stop and take notice.

I don’t think Gordy called me up this week just to say "wear a helmet at all times," but he did.

Somewhere in his Fletcher Hills house, Gordy said, he has one of the original bicycle helmets created by ex-Air Force pilot Bob Montgomery. “He took the hood lining out of an old flight helmet,” said Gordy. “We called it a ‘skid lid.’ ”

Quite an image there, Gordy.

He also wanted me to tell cyclists of all skills that the 250-member San Diego Cyclo-Vets club holds time trials every Tuesday at Fiesta Island. They’ll teach rookies how to race time trials and you can learn how to ride with a group. Information is on their website.

So, I asked Gordy Shields, are you a time trials racer?

“I am, when I can,” he said.

The punchline: Gordy Shields holds the national time trials records for men in these age groups: 80, 85 and 90. And he’s just itching to go after the record for 95 year-olds. He’s only 93.